K's Choice at World Cafe Live April 25

In 2009, Sarah Bettens played at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia as part of the tour in support of her just-released solo album “Never Say Goodbye.” Bettens, who is a founding member of the Belgian band K’s Choice, told fans back then that a new K’s Choice album was in the works.

Then, it took awhile for the album to finally be completed.

Finally, the band released the album “Echo Mountain” in 2010 -- but only in Europe. Last year, K’s Choice, which features Bettens (lead vocals, guitar), her brother Gert Bettens (guitar, keyboard, vocals) and Reinout Swinnen (keyboards), released an acoustic companion album called “Little Echoes.”

Unfortunately for stateside fans, both albums were initially released only in Europe. Eventually, both albums were released in North America in September 2012. Now, K’s Choice is back in America for a full-scale support tour featuring music from the two new discs. The tour touches down in Philadelphia on April 25 at the World Café Live.

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“It took such a long time to get the albums out here because we were busy doing a lot of touring in Europe,” said Sarah Bettens, during a recent phone interview. “And, it was taking us awhile to find the right company to release the albums in the states. We finally decided to release it ourselves through independent distribution.”

The acoustic “Little Echoes” features a few new band originals, acoustic arrangements of previous K’s Choice fan favorites and several custom selected cover songs.

“The idea for ‘Little Echoes’ came from a tour we were doing,” said Bettens. “I had been doing a solo tour of theaters in Europe. It was so much fun solo, I told my brother we had to do a similar acoustic tour with the band.

“It has a stripped down sound. But, most of the songs we’ve written with K’s Choice have that quality from the start. But, we didn’t want to just take the bass and the drums out. We wanted to make sure that the songs had something of their own. We wanted songs that could keep their integrity in the new form.

“We wrote two new songs and recorded a couple covers, including ‘I’m So Excited’ and ‘Message to My Girl.’ For the live shows now, it’s just the three of us and we try to keep the dynamic the same as the CD.”

K’S Choice has released a number of compilation and fan club records and has a discography that features six full albums -- “The Great Subconscious Club” (1994),

“We already have a new album recorded and it will be out soon,” said Bettens. “It is music for a documentary about an Antarctic expedition. Half of it is instrumental. It will be released sometime this summer but I’m not sure quite when.”

K’s Choice will be performing on April 25 at 8 p.m. at the World Café Live (3025 Walnut St., Philadelphia, 212-222-1400, www.worldcafelive.com). Tickets are $12.